Principal Risks
An investment in the Fund could lose money over
short or long periods of time. You should expect the Fund’s share price and total return to fluctuate within a wide range. The Fund is subject to the following risks, which could affect the Fund’s
performance:
• Stock market risk, which is the chance that stock prices overall will decline. Stock markets tend to move in cycles, with periods of rising prices and periods of falling prices. The
Fund’s target index tracks a subset of the U.S. stock market, which could cause the Fund to perform differently from the overall stock market. In addition, the Fund’s target index may, at times, become
focused in stocks of a particular market sector, which would subject the Fund to proportionately higher exposure to the risks of that sector.
• Investment style risk, which is the chance that returns from large-capitalization growth stocks will trail returns from the overall stock market. Large-cap growth stocks tend to go
through cycles of doing better—or worse—than other segments of the stock market or the stock market in general. These periods have, in the past, lasted for as long as several years.
• Nondiversification risk. Due to an index rebalance and in order to closely track the composition of the Fund's target index, more than 25% of the Fund's total assets are invested in
issuers representing more than 5% of the Fund's total assets. As a result, the Fund is nondiversified under the Investment Company Act of 1940, although it continues to hold approximately 300 stocks across a number of
sectors. The Fund’s performance may be hurt disproportionately by the poor performance of relatively few stocks, or even a single stock, and the Fund’s shares may experience significant fluctuations in
value.
• Sector risk, which is the chance that significant problems will affect a particular sector, or that returns from that sector will trail returns from the overall stock market. Daily
fluctuations in specific market sectors are often more extreme or volatile than fluctuations in the overall market. Because a significant portion of the Fund’s assets are invested in the information technology
sector, the Fund’s performance is impacted by the general condition of that sector. Companies in the information technology sector could be affected by, among other things, overall economic conditions, short
product cycles, rapid obsolescence of products, competition, and government regulation. Sector risk is expected to be high for the Fund.
An investment in the Fund is not a
deposit of a bank and is not insured or guaranteed by the Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation or any other government agency.